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Asimov's Annotated Paradise Lostby John Milton, Isaac AsimovISBN 0385079923 (0-385-07992-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
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Beowulf: A Verse Translationby Daniel Donoghue, Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393975800 (0-393-97580-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: A Verse Translation'Book summary:Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaneys translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).
The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaneys clear and insightful introduction to Beowulf provides students with an understanding of both the poems history in the canon and Heaneys own translation process. [via]More editions of Beowulf: A Verse Translation:
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140441050 (0-14-044105-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:Dante (12651321) is the greatest of Italian poets, and his Divine Comedy is the finest of all Christian allegories. To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady he combined them into a great allegory of the souls search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiasm, and all his poetry. In Paradise, which T. S. Eliot among others has found either incomprehensible or intensely exciting, Dante journeys through the encircling spheres of heaven towards God. Translated by and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers [via]
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Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine Cantica II Purgatoryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140440461 (0-14-044046-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedyby Mark Musa, Dante AlighieriISBN 0253341418 (0-253-34141-8)
Hardcover, Indiana University Press
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Dante's Divine Comedy: 15th-Century Manuscriptby Dante Alighieri, Sergio Samek Ludovici, Nino RavennaISBN 0517282879 (0-517-28287-9)
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De Rerum Natura: The Poem on Natureby C. H. SissonISBN 0415969573 (0-415-96957-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Rerum Natura: The Poem on Nature'Book summary:The "De Rerum Natura" of Lucretius (99BC-55BC) is one of the great books of the world, a lucid explanation of physical phenomena that develops into a majestic vision of the ultimate nature of the universe. Lucretius' observations of the particularities of the world remain vividly alive across the centuries. Through his eyes we see the growth of crops and the changing seasons, the behaviour of animals and the symptoms of disease. We follow his enquiring, scientific mind as he investigates the workings of mirror images, thunderstorms and magnetism, how we walk and what sleep is. The poem's power lies in the tension between this brief, sensuous, richness of life, and Lucretius' overarching belief in an empty universe of eternally recurring elements. C.H. Sisson's version of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura is well worth having. It should help to bring back into active presence not only the most Latin of major Latin poets, but a work in which the perennial question as to whether science and poetry, philosophy and poetry, can be united receives an unsurpassed affirmative answer. [via]
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De Rervm Natvraby Titus Lucretius Carus, William Ellery Leonard, Stanley Barney SmithISBN 0299003620 (0-299-00362-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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De Rervm Natvra: Libri Sexby LucretiusISBN 0198146248 (0-19-814624-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Divina Comedia / Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 8437607299 (84-376-0729-9)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divina Comedia / Divine Comedy'Book summary:La figura de Dante sobresale indiscutiblemente por encima de sus contemporaneos. A caballo entre dos siglos, la edad vieja, duecuento, y la nueva, trecento, se funden en su obra. De la primera recoge la sutil tematica -stilnovista-, irradiando su propia erudicion en todos los campos del saber; el trecento manifiesta una concepcion mas moderna del gusto, un interes mas discreto para los clasicos y una vision mas amplia de la vida moral. La comoposicion de la Divina Comedia ocupo los ultimos quince anos de la vida de Dante, convirtiendose en un empeño de caracter cientifico, filosofico, teologico e historico, a la vez que en una experiencia ascetica que acomete el alma del poeta. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, David H. Higgins, C. H. SissonISBN 0192835025 (0-19-283502-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:Dante Alighieri The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0486411273 (0-486-41127-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0882950282 (0-88295-028-2)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0679433139 (0-679-43313-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0785821201 (0-7858-2120-1)
Hardcover, Chartwell Books - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0030086906 (0-03-008690-6)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0140444416 (0-14-044441-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0460875221 (0-460-87522-1)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M. - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0895268817 (0-89526-881-7)
Softcover, Gateway Books - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0192810960 (0-19-281096-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 085635273X (0-85635-273-X)
Hardcover, Carcanet New Press - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0890095957 (0-89009-595-7)
Hardcover, Book Sales - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0192835025 (0-19-283502-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0394701267 (0-394-70126-7)
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The Divine Comedyby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451208633 (0-451-20863-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance.
Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via] -
The Divine Comedyby Peter Dale, Alighieri DanteISBN 0856462802 (0-85646-280-2)
Softcover, Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:Dante's masterpiece is undoubtedly one of the supreme works of world literature. Peter Dale's achievement has been to produce a complete version in modern English that echoes Dante's "sweet new style" while keeping to the poet's demanding terza rima verse pattern. It is a handsome reader's edition -- accurate, clear and compelling -- and contains a fascinating introduction on the poem's history, and its influence on English poetry through the ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Alighieri Dante, David H. Higgins, SissonISBN 0192830732 (0-19-283073-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Robert M. DurlingISBN 019508747X (0-19-508747-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Infernoby Robert M. Durling, Ronald L. Martinez, Alighieri DanteISBN 0195087402 (0-19-508740-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno'Book summary:This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, "the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians." Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax. The Durling-Martinez Inferno is also user-friendly. The Italian text, newly edited, is printed on each verso page; the English mirrors it in such a way that readers can easily find themselves in relation to the original terza rima . Designed with the first-time reader of Dante in mind, the volume includes comprehensive notes and textual commentary by Martinez and Durling: both are life-long students of Dante and other medieval writers (their Purgatorio and Paradiso will appear next year). Their introduction is a small masterpiece of its kind in presenting lucidly and concisely the historical and conceptual background of the poem. Sixteen short essays are provided that offer new inquiry into such topics as the autobiographical nature of the poem, Dante's views on homosexuality, and the recurrent, problematic body analogy (Hell has a structure parallel to that of the human body). The extensive notes, containing much new material, explain the historical, literary, and doctrinal references, present what is known about the damned souls Dante meets --from the lovers who spend eternity in the whirlwind of their passion, to Count Ugolino, who perpetually gnaws at his enemy's skull--disentangle [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorioby Robert M. Durling, Robert Turner, Ronald L. MartinezISBN 0195087410 (0-19-508741-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio'Book summary:The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's syntax.
Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno. Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno, there is an extensive bibliography and four useful indexes.
Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem. [via]More editions of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio:
The Divine Comedy: Text With Translation in the Metre of the Original by Geoffrey L. Bickerstethby Geoffrey BickerstethISBN 063112926X (0-631-12926-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Flow Chartby John AshberyISBN 0374525498 (0-374-52549-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary, Claire HonessISBN 1853267872 (1-85326-787-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In The Inferno, Dante's protagonist - and his reader - is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous and horrific characters. [via]
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The KalevalaISBN 1404352457 (1-4043-5245-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Kalevalaby Elias Lonnrot, Keith BosleyISBN 019283570X (0-19-283570-X)
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The Kalevala : Epic of the Finnish Peopleby Eino FribergISBN 9511101374 (951-1-10137-4)
Hardcover, Egmont Books, Limited
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Kalevala: The Land of the Heroesby Michael Branch, W.F. KirbyISBN 0485120488 (0-485-12048-8)
Softcover, Athlone Press
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Lucretius the Way Things Are: The De Rerum Naturaby Rolfe HumphriesISBN 025320125X (0-253-20125-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Lusiadsby Luis Vaz De Camoes, Landeg WhiteISBN 0192801511 (0-19-280151-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lusiads'Book summary:First published in 1572, "The Lusiads" is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of "The Lusiads" is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes' narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East. The poem's twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind's knowledge of the world unites the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Yet it speaks powerfully, too, of the precariousness of power, and of the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened not only from without by enemies, but from within by loss of integrity and vision. [via]
The Lusiadsby Landeg White, Luis De CamoesISBN 0192831917 (0-19-283191-7)
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Mahadevi Sancayitaby Elias Lonnrot, Francis P. MagounISBN 0674500105 (0-674-50010-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mahadevi Sancayita'Book summary:La primera publicación corresponde al año 1835 y contenía un total de 5.052 versos, congregados en 32 poemas. La reproducción final corresponde a 1849, cuando se publicó en toda su extensión actual de 23.000 versos y 50 poemas.
En su labor meticulosa de recopilación y recomposición, Elias Lönnrot logró acopiar versos provenientes de diferentes fuentes, tanto subjetivas como territoriales. Para ello recurrió a trovadores, narradores, o al examen de la tradición oral en diversas regiones de Finlandia, especialmente en la zona de Carelia.
Lönnrot, en su trabajo de recopilación, acopló y relacionó diferentes testimonios e historias para dotar a la obra de una mejor estructura narrativa. Al mismo tiempo disminuyó la cantidad de personajes y concentró los lugares donde se desarrollan los sucesos. De esta manera logró una mayor coherencia y concreción de esta obra cumbre de la mitología y folclore de Finlandia.
La leyenda, el mito y la evocación poética se enlazan perfectamente en el Kalevala, erigiendo un mundo habitado por héroes de carne y hueso, que oscilan entre lo humano, lo divino y lo esperpéntico. Por eso los actos de los personajes del Kalevala están plagados de extravagancias y deslices humanos. [via] 
The Nature of Thingsby Lucretius, Richard Jenkyns, A. E. StallingsISBN 0140447962 (0-14-044796-2)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern world. [via]-
On the Nature of the Universeby Lucretius, R.E. LathamISBN 0140446109 (0-14-044610-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Nature of the Universe'Book summary:This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view. [via]
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Orlando Furiosoby Ludvico Aristo, Barbara ReynoldsISBN 014044310X (0-14-044310-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando Furioso'Book summary:One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with the captive Angelica as his prize, her beauty soon inspires his cousin Rinaldo to challenge him to a duel - but during their battle, Angelica escapes from both knights on horseback and begins a desperate quest for freedom. This dazzling kaleidoscope of fabulous adventures, sorcery and romance has inspired generations of writers - including Spenser and Shakespeare - with its depiction of a fantastical world of magic rings, flying horses, sinister wizardry and barbaric splendour. [via]
OS Lusiadasby Luis De Camoes, Amelia Pinto PaisISBN 972627043X (972-627-043-X)
Hardcover, Areal
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Paradise Lostby John MiltonISBN 0075536684 (0-07-553668-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:[via]In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of executionParadise Lost has an apparent ambivalence towards authority which has led to intense debate about whether it manages to "justify the ways of God to men", or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Paradise Lost: ISBN 0393924289 (0-393-92428-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Paradise Lost: ISBN 019280619X (0-19-280619-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Paradise Lost: ISBN 002338235X (0-02-338235-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Paradise Lost, a New Edition a Poem in Twelve Book: ISBN 0023582804 (0-02-358280-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Paradise Lost: ISBN 0140424261 (0-14-042426-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Paradise Lost: ISBN 0075536684 (0-07-553668-4)
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Paradise Lostby Scott Elledge, John MiltonISBN 0393962938 (0-393-96293-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:This is the second edition of the "Norton Critical Edition" of Milton's "Paradise Lost". It represents an extensive revision of the first edition. The text of the poem remains that of Milton's 1674 edition, retaining the original punctuation but with modernized spelling and italics. Material for the study of contemporary religious and political issues is now included, as well as selections from his earlier poetry and prose. [via]
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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: And, Paradise Regainedby John Milton, Christopher B. RicksISBN 0451527925 (0-451-52792-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: And, Paradise Regained'Book summary:I, WHO erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By one man's firm obedience fully tried Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed, And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness. Thou Spirit, who led'st this glorious Eremite Into the desert, his victorious field Against the spiritual foe, and brought'st him thence By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted song, else mute, And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds, With prosperous wing full summed, to tell of deeds Above heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left through many an age: Worthy to have not remained so long unsung [via]
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Paradise Lost. Book 10;by John Milton, C.A. Patrides, E. A. J. HonigmannISBN 0333019458 (0-333-01945-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary. [via]
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Parzivalby Andre Lefevere, WolframISBN 0826403468 (0-8264-0346-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parzival'Book summary:Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly and spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles and tournaments and Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love and loyalty and human endeavor despite the cruelty and suffering of life, is constantly mingling with the world of the Grail, affirming the inherent unity between man's temporal condition and his quest for something beyond human existence. [via]
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Parzivalby Wolfram Von EschenbachISBN 0394701887 (0-394-70188-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parzival'Book summary:Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly and spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles and tournaments and Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love and loyalty and human endeavor despite the cruelty and suffering of life, is constantly mingling with the world of the Grail, affirming the inherent unity between man's temporal condition and his quest for something beyond human existence. [via]
Parzival of Wolfram Von Eschenbackby Von Eschenbach WolframISBN 0404509053 (0-404-50905-3)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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The Portable Danteby Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa, Laurence Binyon, Dante Gabriel RossettISBN 0140231145 (0-14-023114-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Dante'Book summary:As a philosopher, Dante wedded classical methods of enquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared to draw maps of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunciation. As all these things Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) paved the way for modern literature. This volume aims to capture the scope of Dante's genius. It contains complete verse translations of his two masterworks, "The Divine Comedy" and "La Vita Nuova". [via]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby Burton RaffelISBN 0451528182 (0-451-52818-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal to Chaucers masterworks and to the great Old English poems, Beowulf included. A green-skinned knight offers the Knights of the Round Table a simple but deadly challengea challenge taken on by the brave Sir Gawain. A challenge that will force him to choose between his honor and his life...
@GawainsWorld So listen here, some green man came to the hall and wants someone to cut his head off. Some sort of dare? Could be fun, right?
The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesnt he know hell be dead?
This goblin fellow is totally dead.
All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS!
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0198114869 (0-19-811486-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby M. BorroffISBN 0393097544 (0-393-09754-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:In translation from the West Midland dialect (sorry, prose was best I could find.) [via]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby W.S. MerwinISBN 0375709924 (0-375-70992-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text.
It is the height of Christmas and New Years revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthurs court. He presents a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever gives the blow must promise to take the same in exactly a year and a days time. The young Sir Gawain quickly rises to the challenge, and the poem tells of the adventures he findsan almost irresistible seduction, shockingly brutal hunts, and terrifyingly powerful villainsas he endeavors to fulfill his promise.
Capturing the pace, impact, and richly alliterative language of the original text, W. S. Merwin has imparted a new immediacy to a spellbinding narrative, written centuries ago by a poet whose name is now unknown, lost to time. Of the Green Knight, Merwin notes in his foreword: We seem to recognize himhis splendor, the awe that surrounds him, his menace and his gracewithout being able to place him . . . We will never know who the Green Knight is except in our own response to him.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translationby Helen Cooper, Keith HarrisonISBN 0192833340 (0-19-283334-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translation'Book summary:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two ancient Celtic motifs--the Beheading and the Exchange of Winnings--brought together by the anonymous 14th century author. Acclaimed poet Keith Harrison's new translation uses a modern alliterative pattern which subtly echoes the music of the original at the same time it strives for fidelity. This is the most generously annotated edition available, complete with a detailed introduction which situates the work in the context of Arthurian Romance and analyzes its poetics and narrative structure. [via]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Middle English Text With Facing Translationby James WinnyISBN 0921149921 (0-921149-92-1)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Middle English Text With Facing Translation'Book summary:The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to most twentieth-century readers. Written in an obscure dialect, it is far more difficult to digest in the original than are most other late medieval English works. Yet any translation is bound to lose much of the flavour of the original. This edition of the poem offers the original text together with a facing-page translation. With the alliterative Middle English before the reader, James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal rendering in modern English. This edition also provides an introduction, explanatory and textual notes, a further note on some words that present particular difficulties, and, in the appendices, two contemporary stories, The Feast of Bricriu and The Knight of the Sword, which provide insight on the poem. [via]
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Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (Gwain)by Richard MorrisISBN 1406805238 (1-4068-0523-8)
Softcover, Echo Library
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Diagrama de flujoby John AshberyISBN 8437612268 (84-376-1226-8)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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La Divina Comedia / The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 9583000760 (958-30-0076-0)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Divina Comedia / The Divine Comedy'Book summary:La figura de Dante sobresale indiscutiblemente por encima de sus contemporaneos. A caballo entre dos siglos, la edad vieja, duecuento, y la nueva, trecento, se funden en su obra. De la primera recoge la sutil tematica -stilnovista-, irradiando su propia erudicion en todos los campos del saber; el trecento manifiesta una concepcion mas moderna del gusto, un interes mas discreto para los clasicos y una vision mas amplia de la vida moral. La comoposicion de la Divina Comedia ocupo los ultimos quince anos de la vida de Dante, convirtiendose en un empeño de caracter cientifico, filosofico, teologico e historico, a la vez que en una experiencia ascetica que acomete el alma del poeta. [via]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : A New Verse Translationby W. S. MerwinISBN 0375414762 (0-375-41476-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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It is the height of Christmas and New Years revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthurs court. He presents a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever gives the blow must promise to take the same in exactly a year and a days time. The young Sir Gawain quickly rises to the challenge, and the poem tells of the adventures he findsan almost irresistible seduction, shockingly brutal hunts, and terrifyingly powerful villainsas he endeavors to fulfill his promise.
Capturing the pace, impact, and richly alliterative language of the original text, W. S. Merwin has imparted a new immediacy to a spellbinding narrative, written centuries ago by a poet whose name is now unknown, lost to time. Of the Green Knight, Merwin notes in his foreword: We seem to recognize himhis splendor, the awe that surrounds him, his menace and his gracewithout being able to place him . . . We will never know who the Green Knight is except in our own response to him. [via]More editions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : A New Verse Translation:
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La Divine Comedieby Dante Alighieri, Didier Marc GarinISBN 2729114599 (2-7291-1459-9)
Hardcover, Editions de La Difference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Divine Comedie'Book summary:Oeuvre fondatrice de la poésie italienne, La Divine Comédie fut composée par Dante entre 1306 et 1321. Épopée métaphysique, récit d'une véritable vision dont l'auteur aurait fait l'expérience ? Le voici perdu en une "forêt obscure", s'éveillant comme hébété en un monde parallèle où Virgile - son maître spirituel - apparaît bientôt et lui tend une main secourable. Le voyage, ce parcours initiatique menant à la clarté divine, s'ouvre sur la traversée des neuf cercles de l'Enfer, sondant à la fois la symbolique chrétienne et les recoins les plus funestes de l'âme humaine. S'ensuit un vibrant périple au Purgatoire, au terme duquel Dante rencontrera Béatrice (la béatitude...), cette figure rayonnante et céleste qu'il poursuivra avec passion jusqu'aux portes du Paradis. Étonnante de modernité et affranchie des contraintes de la doctrine, La Divine Comédie est également remarquable par sa structure qui constitue un véritable monument de la poésie classique. Une oeuvre dont bien des poètes ont envié la perfection, à commencer par Charles Baudelaire. --Lenaïc Gravis et Jocelyn Blériot [via]
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